# Release notes for Gluster 7.9

This is a bugfix release. The release notes for [7.0](7.0.md), [7.1](7.1.md),
[7.2](7.2.md), [7.3](7.3.md), [7.4](7.4.md) [7.5](7.5.md), [7.6](7.6.md), [7.7](7.7.md) and [7.8](7.8.md)
contain a listing of all the new features that were added
and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 7 stable release.

**NOTE:**

This release would be the last release of release-7.x series. 
Users are highly encouraged to upgrade to newer releases of GlusterFS.

## Highlights of Release

This release contains majorly the bug fixes as described in the issues section.

## Builds are available at

[https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/7/7.9/](https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/7/7.9/)

## Issues addressed in this release

Please find the list of issues added to this release below.

- [#1852](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1852) glusterd: Can't run rebalance due to long unix socket
- [#1836](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1836) posix: Update ret value in posix_get_gfid2path if GF_MALLOC fails
- [#1738](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1738) [cli] Improper error message on command timeout
- [#1699](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1699) One brick offline with signal received: 11
- [#1604](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1604) rfc.sh on release-7 needs to move to github flow
- [#1499](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1499) why not use JumpConsistentHash to replace SuperFastHash to cho...
- [#1221](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1221) features/bit-rot: invalid snprintf() buffer size
- [#1060](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1060) [bug:789278] Issues reported by Coverity static analysis tool